Giant (play)
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West End Promotional Poster | |
| Written by | Mark Rosenblatt |
| Directed by | Nicholas Hytner |
| Date premiered | 20 September 2024 |
| Place premiered | Royal Court Theatre. London |
Giant is a play by Mark Rosenblatt. It is a dramatisation of a period in Roald Dahl's life after his 1983 literary review of a picture book about the siege of West Beirut by the Israeli army during the 1982 Lebanon War was deemed anti-Semitic. It premiered at the Royal Court Theatre in 2024 in a production starring John Lithgow as Dahl which won three Laurence Olivier Awards, including Best New Play.